'We have broken speed of light'
 

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...cispeed116.xml

I'll believe it when see it?;)

It does kind of remind me of the 'cold fussion' break through.

I have heard of cold brewing.....what is cold fusion?

You know that fusion is hot (h-bombs, the sun), but cold fusion was the 'holy grail' of unlimited benign power. The evil oil companies bought up all the rights, and have buried it.

This'll probably turn out like those americans who'd discovered teleportation a few years back. Meaning we'll never hear about it again.

Now isn't that something.....unlimited supply of energy? Side affect of this? Oh yeah, I thought the closer you reach the speed of light the heavier the object gets therefore we can not reach that speed or am I off on this?

Warp speed ?
 

"The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws".
Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

Possibly not

I thought the problem was that an infinite amount of energy was required and as one approaches c the energy just isn't available anywhere in the universe. Maybe this is where cold fusion comes in.

Come to think of it my lights were flickering a few days ago:hmm:

Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it. I truely believe we can not hit the speed of light...only light can do that and go no faster. Good article!!!

"Warp factor 1, Mr.Sulu!"

This is an outrage, how dare they break the speed of light! I demand they fix the speed of light immediately!

It is not theirs, and now they've gone and broken it, bloody typical.

:D Chock

Erm...but...if it IS going faster than the speed of light...how will you see it? :hmm:

I reckon we will be able to travel at the speed of light one day, probably in a thousand yrs from now, but we will. If its impossible we make it possible:hmm:

I live by the conviction that nothing is impossible and that man's science does not describe limits of the universe, but describes limits of man's understanding of it. I also subscribe to the view of the universe to be a space not of empty void and matter, suns and stars, but to be a space of mind in which the material universe is "embedded", like memories and fanatsies can appear ihn our minds. I could imagine that one day travelling from one side of the galaxy to the other maybe one day will prove to mean not boarding a super-fast space-taxi, but a relocation of mind.

Or an alteration of state of mind.

Or a state of evolution where these terms have lost any meaning for our mind(?s) then. Arthur C. Clarke has been a great visionary of technical SF, and I left his mmark in ma fantasies when I was young, but I always felt that he cannot describe a realistic future - more a transition phase towards the future, that depends on all that techno-stuff as crutches. In Clarke's own words (foreword to 2001): "The truth, as always, will be far stranger."

That's why I find UFO-believer's statements on little grey gnomes travelling in spaceships from planet A to planet B so naive. Very possible there are UFOs (or elfs, or mental projections, or dimension or time travellers, or a combination of all). But it certainly works much different than the NY Subway pushed onto a stellar levels.

A wonderful visualization, maybe you have seen it back then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVK7rXSiCCA

"I don't know!"
"That's a very good answer!"

Theoretical physics is a fun thing to discuss when thuroughly drunk. Anyhow about traveling faster than the speed of light, im very sceptical that it is possible.

And if you did, how would you see where you were going?

Time machine. Many problems solved, many started.